I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”
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The oldest fraud
The oldest fraud is the belief that the political left is the party of the poor and the downtrodden.
May sound good, but it doesn’t work
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
The standard crisis response
Why is the federal government response, to every crisis large and small, always and only to take my money and give it to people who are not even remotely me?
Spreading poverty
The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.
Socialism is a system that invites abuse
There’s no point blaming the tragedies of socialism on the flaws or corruption of particular leaders. Any system which allows some people to exercise unbridled power over others is an open invitation to abuse, whether that system is called slavery or socialism or something else.
Democracy as a stratagem
The Marxian’s love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
Our tax system
Our tax system penalizes those who are producing wealth in order to subsidize those who are only consuming it.
The nature of socialism
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment … is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.
Progressive ideas
So much of the left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire, by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.